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4k Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$320k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 12
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$7.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations 4k Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $631 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesReligionCommunity ImprovementEducationPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving16$320k38%
FY202312$168k25%
FY202211$470k36%
FY202110$252k50%
FY20207$318k57%
FY201911$315k55%
FY201810$534k70%
FY201710$242kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$834kReligion$665kHealth$457kCommunity Improvement$200kEducation$178kHuman Services$120kFood & Nutrition$101kPhilanthropy$42kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
OK
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 31 grantees
All grantees of 4k Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Rebuilt Parish Inc$451,715215%
Young Onset Parkinsons Network$312,500487%
Innovation Works Inc$200,00047%
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$117,45080%
The House of Ruth Maryland Inc$102,65050%
The Maryland Food Bank Inc$100,00010%
United Way of Greater High Point Inc$39,50340%
Believe Big Inc$23,27251%
Franciscan Center Inc$16,91230%
St Paul's School for Girls Inc$14,00020%
Fellowship of Catholic University Students$5,6004n/a
Virginia Episcopal School$5,0001n/a
East Carolina University Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Next One Up Foundation Inc$5,00011%
Cover the City Project Inc$3,000123%
Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc$2,50010%
Swim Across America Inc$2,02550%
Equiteam Support Services$2,00011%
Catholic High School of Baltimore Inc$1,5001n/a
Student Support Network Inc$1,00010%
Volunteers of America Inc$5001n/a
Generosity-Global Incorporated$50010%
Animal Rescue Inc$4001n/a
Best Buddies International Inc$25710%
Motor Racing Outreach Inc$25610%
American Heart Association Inc$25010%
Charm City Charities Inc$2501n/a
Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Dba Cure Sma$21510%
Growing High Point$12510%
Folds of Honor Foundation$10010%
Free to Breathe$5010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

4k Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRebuilt Parish Inc: $451,715 over 2y, 15% of budgetYoung Onset Parkinsons Network: $312,500 over 4y, 87% of budgetInnovation Works Inc: $200,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc: $117,450 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe House of Ruth Maryland Inc: $102,650 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Maryland Food Bank Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Greater High Point Inc: $39,503 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBelieve Big Inc: $23,272 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetFranciscan Center Inc: $16,912 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSt Paul's School for Girls Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEast Carolina University Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNext One Up Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCover the City Project Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetCal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $2,025 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEquiteam Support Services: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetStudent Support Network Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGenerosity-Global Incorporated: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $257 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMotor Racing Outreach Inc: $256 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamilies of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Dba Cure Sma: $215 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrowing High Point: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFolds of Honor Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFree to Breathe: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving IncMD20.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Edward St John Foundation Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Abell Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About 4k Foundation Inc

How much does 4k Foundation Inc give?
4k Foundation Inc reported 16 grants totaling $320,054 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does 4k Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (32%), Religion (25%), Health (17%).
Who are 4k Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rebuilt Parish Inc ($452k), Young Onset Parkinsons Network ($313k), Innovation Works Inc ($200k).
Does 4k Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does 4k Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as 4k Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc, France-Merrick Foundation Inc, The United Way of Central Maryland Inc.
Where is 4k Foundation Inc based?
4k Foundation Inc is based in MD.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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